Each One Reach One (4)

It’s been a while since I last posted here on this subject – but my thoughts are still bubbling around the verses I wrote on last time from Mark, and how farmers intentionally sow and nurture their crops rather than trying to harvest what grows by itself. This is drawing me back again to encouraging us each to think intentionally again who we might reach.

Something that we have been encouraging for a while is the idea of 5 in focus – praying regularly for 5 people who we would like to see share our relationship with God. But maybe 5 seems too many – how about starting with one? If you could reach one person, who would it be?

As the summer is starting early and promises to be a good one, we dusted off our barbecue at the weekend for the first time. It reminded me of what a fantastic opportunity it is to invite friends/neighbours round to spend time with us – and I always intend to invite them round. But like me and washing up, there’s nothing wrong with intending to do it, it’s the lack of action that’s a problem!!! Since people often need to belong before they want to believe, how about intentionally setting a date in the next two months to finally invite those people round you’ve been meaning to invite for sometime?

With Hope 08 coming up, if we really want to see our friends and family becoming Christians next year, then I guess we need to start further back and begin clearing the ground in readiness now.

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Zern0
on 27/04/2007 at 9:33 am

Hi there 🙂

I recently found your website when I was randomly searching for a site where I could find some sunday talks I could listen. Now I listened the “Fight for Your Faith” talk, and I really liked it :). It gave me new strength, encouraged me and gave me some thoughts. And I wanted to thank you for that :).

For the past few weeks (starting from easter) God has shown me some really amazing visions, and some of them are from my own life. Things that I’m doing in my life, things that are not so right. And I’ve thought about those a lot.

The last thing in my mind has been, that how big step it really is to ‘die’ and let Jesus live completely in you. Not just some of your time, but all the time. Those visions I saw are guiding me to that (well those are telling me more than that but anyways :P). If I could take that step, I could possibly have the courage to tell my friends who don’t believe about my faith and about Jesus. To reach atleast one person.

Your blog is really interesting 🙂 I’ll be following it from now on. Your work for it or for anything hasn’t gone waste!

Zern0 – your English is fine! Thanks for your feedback, and we are glad to be of service!

Jesus Christ is real, and really wants to be a part of people’s lives – that’s the gospel! God with us, us never meant to do life alone but instead put our faith (trust) in Jesus Christ and do life with him! When we can finally get to the point of saying “God
I can’t do this” he says “Ah! Now you get it! Come, lets do it together! My grace is sufficent for you ‘cos my power is made perfect in weakness!”